Halloween Baking Championship

Carla Hall encourages 10 competitors to reveal their deepest fears by baking haunted house cakes. Then, the bakers compete in the dagger game, and the winner receives a reward that could be competition life or death.[Food Network]

The 10 competitors meet host Carla Hall and get their first challenge: haunted house cakes. Then they play the dagger game for the chance at a key reward before Carla and the judges give their verdict. Plus, the creepiest sweets are revisited and ranked.

Carla Hall meets the nine remaining competitors on the frightening front porch, haunted by eternally disappointed trick or treaters. The bakers are challenged to create Halloween candy croquembouche.[Food Network]

The nine competitors meet up with host Carla Hall, who challenges them to create Halloween candy croquembouche and incorporate an illusion. Plus, a recap of the fiercest battles features the creepiest sweets and most-ghoulish ingredients.

For a vampire party in the spooky cellar, Carla Hall asks the eight remaining bakers to team up and create desserts for a buffet to satisfy the bloodsuckers' appetites.

The seven remaining bakers continue their journey through the haunted house to the creepy nursery. Host Carla Hall challenges the competitors to bake 3-D demon doll cakes with a diabolically assigned flavor.

In the devil's den, Carla Hall challenges the six remaining bakers to conjure up a devilish dessert using unusual ingredients, such as sauerkraut, beets, tamarind paste and canned tomato soup, to avoid the fiery pit of elimination.

Carla Hall invites the five remaining bakers to a party in the haunted ballroom, where they must create impressive costume cakes for a spot in the finale.

The final four bakers face off to make severed limb cakes in the mad doctor's surgical room. Then, host Carla Hall challenges the competitors to reach new heights with floating cakes to win $25,000 and be named Halloween Baking Champion.